How to make GUI wait for windows service?

Question

I wrote a windows service and a gui for it. Of course gui mainly depends on the service. Is there a way for gui to wait for the service? Sometimes I need to reload service c

Answer 1

ServiceController has a method WaitForStatus where you pass it an argument of type ServiceControllerStatus. You can use it like this:

controller.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running);